Process Engineer

SGS; Rustenburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A multidisciplinary engineering firm is seeking an experienced process engineer specializing in mining and minerals. The candidate will provide engineering input for marketing proposals and develop conceptual designs. Key responsibilities include leading design reviews, ensuring compliance with regulations, and managing client relationships during project execution. Candidates must possess a relevant degree and significant experience in the EPC/EPCM environment, particularly within the mining sector.

Qualifications

• 5 to 25 years’ experience executing projects in EPC/EPCM environment.
• Proven experience in the mining and minerals, or petrochemical sector.

Responsibilities

• Provide process engineering input to marketing and proposals.
• Produce conceptual design and generate alternatives.
• Generate detailed engineering deliverables and check design layouts.
• Lead design reviews and ensure legal compliance with design codes.
• Conduct on-site commissioning and provide post-commissioning process support.

Skills

Construction & Commissioning

Risk Analysis

Value Engineering

Process Flow Diagrams

Testing

Equipment & Components

Legislation & Standards

Technical Documentation

Economical Awareness

Process Simulation

Mass balance

Process Design Criteria

Piping & Instrumentation Diagram

Education

Chemical Engineering or Extractive Metallurgy or Minerals Processing Degree

Job description

Overview

SGS Bateman’s multidiscipline engineering team provides integrated engineering services for processing plants and related operations. Using proven ISO methodologies enhanced by innovative approaches, the team transforms conceptual designs into operational manual processing plants of all sizes and complexities. An extensive suite of enhanced 3-D design tools and modeling software allow our engineering team to visualize all aspects of plant development.

Responsibilities

• Business Development/Marketing: Provide process engineering input to marketing and proposals by providing technical assistance to support Business Development and Marketing strategies
• Produce cost effective, conceptual & timeous proposals
• Determine customer’s requirements
• Communicate with customer and review customer’s enquiry documents and evaluate requirements and constraints
• Define the process/plant scope of work
• Produce the conceptual design and generate alternatives
• Produce and agree mass and energy balances and conceptual PFDs
• Contribute to basic design criteria document through preliminary equipment & motor list, preliminary control criteria and major equipment & material specification
• Project Life Cycle: Provide Process engineering input to project implementation and Project set up
• Provide input to generate scope of work, schedules and budgets
• Refine scope of work, review contract and design discipline design criteria and engineering deliverables
• Define Battery limits and control and report scope variances
• Generate detail discipline schedules and review overall discipline requirements
• Contribute to procurement and identify long lead items
• Determine/prioritize work breakdown structure
• Issue data to planner
• Review/co-ordinate & adhere to schedule of implementation
• Control and report variances
• Generate and develop detail discipline budgets and identify indirect/resource costs
• Adhere to budget implementation and control and report budget variances
• Consolidate documentation for monthly project progress report
• Provide input to monthly discipline reports
• Provide feedback to functional manager
• Design: Generate the following engineering deliverables: Detailed mass & energy balance; Detailed PFDs; Detailed equipment/motor list; Equipment specifications; Data Sheets (Develop & Approval); Operation & Control Philosophy; Detailed functional specifications; Write operating manual; Generate detailed plant process guarantees; Check and review design layouts, including vendor packages; Adhere to schedules and budgets; Issue, review and control final process design documentation; Check and obtain approval of calculations and specifications; Consult with specialists for novel or unusual designs
• Client Relations (Internal & External): Prepare approved vendor list and issue enquiry documents; Perform technical and commercial adjudication; Obtain client approval; Participate in pre-award meetings, review quality plan and contract; Review quality/expediting reports and witness key manufacturing hold points; Provide technical backup for expediting team; Proactively maintain information flow; Attend co-ordination meetings; Advise changes early; Co-ordinate deliveries; Adopt flexible approach; Respond to needs of other disciplines; Ensure awareness of Company vision and departmental goals/objectives
• Plant commissioning: Produce and submit commissioning plan/manual; Determine critical path and establish commissioning sequence/schedule; Define and secure resources; Define battery limits of commissioning; Define commissioning systems/procedure; Produce commissioning files, including commissioning documentation; Ensure commissioning meets project requirements; Issue remedial inspection reports during construction; Monitor installation and commissioning checklists; Arrange and co-ordinate commissioning meetings; Conduct on-site commissioning; Provide technical back-up for site QA team; Assist in performance testing in terms of design base; Supervise and train operating personnel; Contribute to close-out report and adhere to close out procedures; Provide post-commissioning process support; Ensure plant optimization and plant operating analysis; Ensure regular visits/communications with client
• Legislation, Policies & Procedures: Lead design reviews and Hazops; Ensure legal compliance with design codes and authorities; Contribute to public participation process as per National Environmental Management Act (NEMA); Enforce process veto rights; Maintain standards; Adhere to and update Company standards; Utilize engineering tools/systems
• Continuous Improvement: Consult with specialists for novel or unusual designs; Review industry standards making use of network periodicals, attending shows and conferences; Identify areas of improvement; Review all previous close-out report; Review systems and procedures; Recommend best practices; Continuous professional development; Identify and address training needs

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• Chemical Engineering or Extractive Metallurgy or Minerals Processing Degree from a recognized tertiary institution

Skills and Experience

A proven experience of 5 to 25 years’ experience executing projects in the EPC/EPCM environment; ideally within the mining and minerals (preferred) or petrochemical sector.

• Construction & Commissioning - Understanding of on-site construction work such as commissioning or customers and suppliers’ interactions
• Risk Analysis - Ability to identify project and activities risk from any point of view including knowledge of hazard and operation HAZOP
• Value Engineering - Ability to optimize a process by adding value either as saving in cost or simplifying the process
• Process Flow Diagrams - Ability to produce, understand and deliver Process Flow diagrams
• Testing - Knowledge of testing techniques and procedures including specifications and interpretations of test works
• Equipment & Components - Knowledge of process, control, quality, electrical etc. equipment specifications, suppliers and features (including equipment installation and components)
• Legislation & Standards - Knowledge of sector specific law (e.g. Engineering, safety reqs, Audit regulations, Insurance laws etc.) and knowledge standard specifications (e.g. Plant layout requirements, etc.) including the ability to integrate these standards.
• Technical Documentation - Ability to create, understand and communicate technical specifications
• Economical Awareness - Knowledge of economic fundamentals and ability to make estimations and proposing alternatives
• Process Simulation - Ability to simulate processes by means of software or other methodologies
• Mass balance - Ability to calculate (using software and spreadsheets) the mass balance of a process
• Process Design Criteria - Knowledge of parameters required to design the process
• Piping & Instrumentation - Diagram Ability to produce, understand and deliver piping and instrumentation diagrams